Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Families for Safe Streets

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BIKELASH: Manhattan Community Board Stalls Fifth Avenue Safety and Transit Redesign

By Julianne Cuba | Jul 9, 2021 | No Comments

Members of a Manhattan civic panel are putting feelings ahead of facts to stall a life-saving street redesign of Fifth Avenue — even though just one pedestrian has been injured by a cyclist since January, 2019.

The aftermath of the Astoria crash that killed Xing Long Lin. File photo: Zohran Mamdani

NYPD’s Fourth of July Vision Zero Plan Includes Targeting Cyclists For Riding on the Sidewalk

By Julianne Cuba | Jul 2, 2021 | No Comments

The NYPD’s Fourth of July safety plan includes both protecting cyclists, and punishing them in ways that have long been racially biased.

SHAME! State Lawmakers Leave Town Without Passing Key Safety Bills

By Fiifi Frimpong | Jun 12, 2021 | No Comments

Safe streets advocates feel abandoned after state lawmakers left Albany on Friday without passing a slate of bills aimed to save children, protect cyclists and make streets more livable.

Familiy For Safe Streets rally outside City Hall Park. Photo: Fiifi Frimpong

Lawmakers Continue To Stall on Bills To Keep Pedestrians, Cyclists Safe

By Fiifi Frimpong | Jun 10, 2021 | No Comments

Top state lawmakers have struck out on a package of pending street safety bills, and today is the last chance for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to grab a bat and get in the game.

Amy Cohen speaking at City Hall Park during last stop of Families For Safe Streets roadtrip

SAFETY LAST: Albany Pols Stall on Package of Bills to Make Roadways Safer

By Fiifi Frimpong | Jun 4, 2021 | No Comments

Albany has served up a nothingburger for dessert.

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OPINION: What is ‘Traffic Violence’ and Why Do We Need To Talk About It?

By Streetsblog | May 4, 2021 | No Comments

We were all raised in car culture — which normalizes the idea that 40,000 people will die in car crashes every year. But it's not normal. And it needs to be called what it is.

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